Backward Glimpses From Dillon August 26 1582
From the Dillon Tribune look back forty two years to a busy August day. Reports note brisk trade despite heat with no dullness in sight. Deputy Mikus uses jail labor to clean the courthouse as Madisonian jokes about political drinks. A Dillon party visits Blacktail canyon catches five hundred trout an infant elk and a full grown caribou before returning to town. Hecla company payroll reaches £40000. Lute Graeder heads to the National Park after Dillon passage.
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Blacktail Canyon
Baptist delegate recounts national convention in Milwaukee
Miss Kate Lewis, Montana delegate to the national B P U convention in Milwaukee, gave a detailed narration of its proceedings at the church song service. A group of local youths plans a week outing near Polaris, while Dr Dungan and B N Stevenson rode to Polaris and Grasshopper Springs. Dillon’s baseball team suffered a 2 1 loss in Butte. Beaverhead fair opens Oct 4 with high hopes. Grain prospects are good though ranges were burned by lack of rain.
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Baptist Church
Kate Lewis
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Montana
County considers buying land for burial ground in Helena
Lewis and Clark county commissioners weigh purchasing AQ acres in the capital city for a burial ground. The county seeks a suitable site so Dillon and nearby valley residents have local burial space as current burials go to PoinDexter and Orr precincts.
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Lewis and Clark County
Dillon
Poindexter & Orr
Cattle and Horses Roam Dillon Streets At Night
Residents report cattle and horses roaming the streets at night disturbing slum areas. A Dillon city ordinance bans running at large stock on the streets to curb the problem.
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Dillon
Red team delegate heads to Toledo for showdown
C W Robinson traveled to Toledo last Wednesday to represent the Red squad in a forthcoming event and discuss team affairs with local officials and supporters.
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C. W. Robinson
Toledo
Red
Household hints and local notices in 19th century clipping
A varied reading list includes home remedies and craft tips on straw matting, windows, onions, adhesive tape, meringue, starch, mahogany care, sinks, enamelware, and yarns. It also reports several regional notes: Miss Ann R. Chinchell now treasurer at a Topeka publishing house, Mrs. Sarah Friedman NYs deputy secretary, Miss Golda Vesella a bold steeple jack, and blind players in mahjong from New York. Local projects include J Neils Lumber sawmill shifts, West Gallatin Highway completion to Yellowstone, new road work at Lolo Pass, Crumley Knight oil output, Malta mine option by U S Smelting, and a telephone line to Richey.
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Ann R. Chinchell
Topeka
Kansas
Sarah Friedman
New York
Golda Vesella
Emeryville
Calif
Mary Bierman
Lillian Hillman
Great Falls reports 1924 wheat yield near fifty million bushels
Estimates put Montana wheat production at about 50 000 000 bushels for 1924. A record crop of feed grasses and millet is also reported statewide.
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